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    With sincere thanks …. I am Goan I am Kenyan I am British I am Australian I am a man of many parts, from many places but right now the whole of me is Australian. Many events, many people, many, many places, much, much luck, some coincidence, many surprises … all of these ingredients have fashioned my life. Until the last sunset arrives, I will be eternally grateful for being blessed with the family I have had and the life I have led. As the cliché goes, I might have done one or two things differently, but then again, there really isn’t very much I would change. Being born in Kenya was perhaps the greatest blessing of all. What a country, what flora, what fauna, what natural beauty and what a diverse, wonderful people. The spectrum of life is a creation of myriad trillions and more of specks. Each speck, good, bad, or ugly has its own space in the universe of things but Kenya will always remain my earth mother and one which I was privileged to have loved with ...

 

  trevorgrundy  news World news and background Skip navigation Home Current News Book Reviews Obituaries Religion Interviews Features & Analysis My Books Christian leaders in Britain stay silent as graves as millions face starvation in Gaza Posted: 14 May, 2025 | Category: Uncategorized A statue of the Madonna with a child at Ripon Cathedral in Yorkshire.  Three Mother and Child  sculptures  in copper by the York artist Harold Gosney attract a great response from visitors. Love of children is central to the Christian message. (Picture: Trevor Grundy   By TREVOR GRUNDY In March 1960, sixty-nine Africans were shot dead at Sharpeville. The name Sharpeville and the figure 69 symbolised the horror of apartheid. For decades after Anglican and Roman Catholics clerics, often with small children on their shoulders, marched around Trafalgar Square to show their  disgust at the political system in South Africa. Today, its more of the same. Just in a ...

  Yesterday in Paradise – A Goan journalist remembers days of sunshine and sorrow in Kenya Posted: 27 December, 2019 | Category: Book Reviews Yesterday in Paradise 1950-1974 by Cyprian Fernandes (Balboa Press, Australia 2017)   Review by TREVOR GRUNDY   “History,” says a character in Louis de Bernieres’s novel Captain Corellis’s Mandolin ,”ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are caught up in it.” Yesterday in Paradise by Cyprian Fernandes is an anecdote-driven non-fiction book that paints a moving picture of the rise of an impoverished Goan teenager from the backstreets of the Asian quarter of Nairobi to a position of  importance in the Kenyan media between the mid-1960s, through to the mid-1970s. As such, it is an important contribution to our understanding of the problems facing ethnic and religious communities in post-colonial countries. There are other books that tell you more about the Goans and their history. But for a full taste of...

 

  GOAN SPORTS ICONS FROM EAST AFRICA: The lovable clown prince of sport CYPRIAN FERNANDES Published Aug 25, 2023, 11:36 PM IST SHARE ON PRINT Sylvester (Silu) Fernandes will always be remembered for being one of the guys who ever played any    sport . He lived his life with a happy smile no matter what the situation. He drove many an opposing play around the bend with some of his unconventional antics as a left half-back … for example, on one occasion, his stick got stuck in an opposing player’s sock … they had a laugh and beer after the game.    Hockey mates used to say that Silu had a trick and a smile for every occasion. He remains amongst the most loved of any sport he played. Hailing from Carmona-Salcete, three-time Kenya    hockey international, Silu, the second of five brothers, was born on November 26, 1936, in Nairobi where he attended the Goan Mecca of sportsmen and sportswomen, the famed Dr Ribeiro Goan School. Growing up at the Railway ...